Seventeen miles long, 11 miles wide, and at least 1,115 feet deep in places, Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán is likely Central America’s largest lake. Located at 5,125 feet above sea level and surrounded by three inactive volcanoes, it fills the caldera of a volcano that last erupted 84,000 years ago… Read More
Matador’s expert on New Zealand lays out the avoidable attractions in the country’s largest city…and what you should do instead. Photo: kennymatic 1. Don’t… skydive In Auckland, you can jump face-first off the Sky Tower, try a bungy jump (both reverse and the traditional — from the Harbour Bridge),… Read More
Designation brought in millions of extra visitors and pounds in 2008, says research It may not have been an unalloyed critical triumph, but Liverpool’s year as European capital of culture earned the city bumper visitor numbers and a multimillion-pound boost to its economy, academics have found. A five-year research… Read More
With this year’s St. Patrick’s Day less than a week away, it’s not too late to plan a road trip to one of the country’s best St. Patric’s Day parades. Find out which parades will make every hour of the road trip worthwhile. 8 Best St. Patrick’s Day Parades… Read More
• Airline representative Iata revises loss forecasts for 2010 from $5.6bn to $2.8bn • Growth in passenger demands and air freight expected to continue Airlines are bouncing back more strongly and swiftly than expected from the global downturn, prompting the airline industry association Iata to halve its forecast for… Read More
Charleston Fountain on St. Patrick’s Day Seeing billboards and ads this week promoting St. Patrick’s Day festivals has reminded me that yet another holiday is upon us. Although St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday, what makes it such a popular celebration in many U.S. cities? Is it the… Read More
Travelers who booked rooms at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts late last year may have had their credit card information stolen by thieves. Wyndham has acknowledged that it was hit by a hacker attack between October and January—the second such hacker attack in the past couple of years. In the… Read More
Despite its wobbly beginnings, the capital’s giant ferris wheel has become a much-loved symbol of London. And even urban sprawl seems beautiful from the top Tony Blair officially opened the London Eye on 31 December 1999. But it was only after a number of technical glitches had been sorted… Read More
South By Southwest’s organizers describe the conference and festival as “an event that acts as a tool for creative people.” You know what else acts as a tool for creative people? Drinking. So after SXSW’s activities wind down in the evening, head to these venues to get your juices… Read More
The Academy Awards are this Sunday, so perhaps you’d like to test your cinematic IQ with a quiz that combines two of our favorite things: national parks and movies. Here’s one of the questions: The opening shots Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade shows young Indy framed against a… Read More